It should have worked by now, but there may be a problem with the counting software. If you hit the "most active threads" button, it gives an application error. Though you were able to get other threads up in the listing. I don't understand it.

Well, if the intent was to call a young man effeminate (not just someone who likes hanging out with ladies--are there young men who really don't?) or a cotquean, and if "poodle" was a slang, pejorative term for a woman, then it seems like the person in question is faking being a woman.

Why cut? I think it's something to do with the swimming-when-hunting again. Either their naturally thick, curly coats would become waterlogged and slow them down and/or when wet they wouldn't dry quickly enough and then they'd catch cold. Something along those lines.

So the solution was to trim most of the coat close to the skin except in those locations where it was essential for keeping the dog warm and healthy.

Well, for show only, that haircut is kind of silly. But it does have a purpose. They are hunting dogs and have to get into cold water. The haircut leaves hair as a protection in the areas it's needed: the vital organs (heart/lungs/chest, head/brain) and extremities (paws, ears, tail).

It refers either to a "ladies' man" or an effeminate man, "poodle" being used in a derogatory sense as "a person who is obsequiously or unquestioningly willing to follow or obey another; a lackey." OED also says that it once referred to "a young, newly commissioned officer."